1000 m (indoor), women

What to remember

Five laps of a 200 m indoor track: that is the indoor form of the 1000 m, an uncommon distance between the 800 m and the 1500 m. At the GE Galan in Stockholm on February 25, 1999, Mozambique's Maria Mutola ran it in 2 min 30.94 s, an average of 23.851 km/h (14.82 mph).

Mutola was above all an 800 m runner. She never broke the world record over that distance, but she built a rare record of wins in it: Olympic gold in 2000, three world titles outdoors and seven indoors. She is the only athlete ever to have won the Olympic, World, World Indoor, Commonwealth Games, Continental Games and Continental Championships titles in the same event.

She competed at six Olympic Games and is the only athlete from Mozambique, men and women alike, to win a world or Olympic title.